Comment by gbrits

Location: Netherlands / GMT+2

Remote: Yes. Experienced with US / UK clients; open to timezone overlap.

Willing to relocate: No, occasional travel OK.

Technologies: Data engineering, backend architecture, event-driven systems, low-latency pipelines, analytics infrastructure, product engineering, Node.js, ClickHouse, DuckDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite, Vue, Tailwind

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: gbrits<at>gmail<dot>com

Hands-on CTO / principal engineer with 20+ years in software engineering. Technical co-founder, CTO/CPO, architect, fractional product owner, and engineering lead.

I work best at the intersection of architecture and implementation: designing data-heavy systems well, then staying close enough to the engineering to keep latency, operability, failure modes, and tradeoffs grounded in reality.

Selected work: fractional lead/architect for ground-up KPI platform rewrite; 5-person FTE team; company later exited for €10M. CTO/CPO for crypto/data product; live matching of 1M+ complex dynamic slices against continuous on-chain/off-chain metric streams; high-throughput, near-real-time latency suitable for trading workflows. ClickHouse-backed worker pipelines processing billions of rows/day while preserving near-real-time downstream availability.

Looking for freelance, contract, fractional CTO, principal engineer, technical lead, or data engineering work.

Best fit: backend-heavy products, analytics/data infrastructure, complex internal tools, low-latency pipelines, or early-stage teams that need one senior person with both breadth and depth.